The Odd Couple (film)
The Odd Couple is a 1968 American black comedy film written by Neil Simon, based on his play The Odd Couple, directed by Gene Saks, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. It is the story of two divorced men neurotic neatfreak Felix Ungar and funloving slob Oscar Madison who decide to live together, even though their personalities clash.
Felix Ungar Jack Lemmon checks into a fleabag hotel near Times Square, Manhattan and attempts to kill himself by jumping out of the window, but he fails to open it and pulls a muscle in his back. Limping back on the street he tries to get drunk at a dance bar and ends up hurting his neck when he throws down a shot. He stands on a bridge, contemplating jumping into the river.Meanwhile, in the frowzy Upper West Side apartment of divorced sportswriter Oscar Madison Walter Matthau on a hot and sticky summer evening, Oscar and his buddies Speed Larry Haines, Roy David Sheiner, Vinnie John Fiedler, and Murray Herb Edelman the cop are playing poker and discussing their friend, Felix Ungar, who is unusually late for the game. Murrays wife calls and tells him that Felix is missing. Oscar then calls Felixs wife Frances who says that she and Felix have split up. As they are discussing what to do, and worried that Felix might try to commit suicide, Felix arrives not knowing that his friends already know that his wife has kicked him out of the house. ........
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